[Aptitude-devel] Bug#767393: aptitude: Does not show version for versioned Provides

[Guillem Jover]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.11-1
Severity: normal

Hi!

With versioned Provides, aptitude is not showing the provided versions.
Instead, on the TUI it shows the version of the real packages if any,
and on the command-line it shows only the package name.

Here's an equivs control file to reproduce the issue:

,--- virtual.control ---
Package: test-provider
Version: 10
Provides: coreutils (= 1000), dpkg (= 1:0), test-nonexistent (= 1.0)
`---

On the command-line:

,---
# equivs-build virtual.control
# dpkg -i test-provider_10_all.deb
# aptitude show test-provider | grep Provides:
Provides: coreutils, dpkg, test-nonexistent
`---

On the TUI, inside the test-provider package window:

,---
[…]
  Source Package: test-provider
  --\ Package names provided by test-provider (3)
v    test-nonexistent                              <none>         <none>
i    dpkg                                          1.17.21        1.17.21
i    coreutils                                     8.23-3         8.23-3
  --- Packages which depend on test-provider (0)
  --\ Versions of test-provider (1)
i    10
`---

Thanks,
Guillem